Instagram for Android finally appears!

[Guest Victor von Zeppelin]

After what feels like a hundred years of promises and waiting, the immensely popular hipster-filtering camera app Instagram is out.<br />

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What actually is Instagram you may ask? It started as an iPhone camera app that in its most barebones form allows you take photos and apply a multitude of vintage-style filters to your captured image. “So what?” You say, “I’ve got loads of filters in the stock gallery app&#33;” True, yes, but Instagram augments this basic functionality with a massive photo sharing community behind it.<br />

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The photo sharing community most definitely seems like the key selling point in this app. On start-up you’re given a choice to follow popular photographers on the service, and the main view is a feed of new images.<br />

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However, there are some problems. The app is immensely iOS themed, and doesn’t suit Android at all – especially now Google has made its design standards known. It’s all confusing for me, a wee Android user who’s never touched the iOS version.<br />

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Anyway&#33; If you feel you want some hipster photo love, work your way over to the Play Store to pick up it up: Instagram<div style='text-align: center;'><img src='7211c5cbd3957b2e711b3ab428132537.png' alt='' /></div><div style='text-align: center;'><img src='' alt='' /></div><br />

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[Guest tdroza]

It's bound to be a huge success, but I almost hope that Instagram fails on Android. They've shown utter contempt for android users by taking a YEAR AND A HALF to release an android app - and when they finally do, all we get is a port of the iOS app with none of the native Android UI design patterns (and 13MB seems excessive for what it does).

Lighbox is a great alternative to Instagram, and will cross post photos to Flickr, Facebook and Twitter (natively not just as links to the Lighbox site). Also pixlr-o-matic is a great Android app that's been around for a while.

*rant over*

[Guest Victor von Zeppelin]

I agree that nearly anything is probably a better app than Instagram. But it's here now. Interest will wane and no one will really care going forward.

[Guest Roubalita]

I have a huawei U8650-1 which is not listed in the phones supporting the application Instagram :(

Is there any way I can get it?

Thank you

[Guest rovex]

I agree, its ugly, because its a bad iOS port and i still dont really see what the fuss is about. Stupid hipster app for stupid hipsters.

[Guest Victor von Zeppelin]

@Roubalita. Looks like it doesn't support ARMv6 devices I'm afraid :(

[Guest k0nrad]

@Victor It does - my brother's LG P500 runs it smoothly.